Brother accused of locking down third-party printer ink cartridges via forced firmware updates, removing older firmware versions from support portals [see comments]

@misk@sopuli.xyz · edit-2 15 days ago

Brother accused of locking down third-party printer ink cartridges via forced firmware updates, removing older firmware versions from support portals [see comments]

NutWrench · 16 days ago

I’m only letting my latest Brother printer connect to my computer through the USB cable. No Internet connection at all.

@harsh3466@lemmy.ml · 15 days ago

Careful with that you though. I thought the same thing but someone pointed out in another thread that depending on your system, it may update the firmware over USB when you do system updates.

@dukatos@lemm.ee · 15 days ago

RPi as a printer server, with the printer connected to its USB port. Use FreeBSD on RPi just to make sure…